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Ukraine’s health systems have been devastated by the war – thousands of hospitals and clinics have been damaged or destroyed, supply chains have been decimated and millions of people have been at risk of being cut off from lifesaving HIV, tuberculosi...
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This year, the Global Fund partnership continued to deliver on its promise to end the world’s deadliest diseases. We look back at 2024 with a collection of powerful people and stories about harnessing the power of new tools, innovation and building s...
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Founded in 1996, CESAC was the very first HIV clinic in Mali — established by a group of young doctors with few resources, but an unshakable commitment to caring for people living with HIV and AIDS. One of those doctors is Dr. Bintou Dembele.
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In Namibia, young women remain disproportionately affected by HIV, facing higher risks due to social and economic vulnerabilities, limited access to services and gender-based violence. The Global Fund and partners support a comprehensive, youth-focus...
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For 15 years, François Mafuku has been an HIV nurse at the Pediatric Foundation of Kimbondo Hospital on the outskirts of Kinshasa. He says that despite the undeniable progress made in the fight against HIV and AIDS, the disease continues to take a he...
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Indonesia has the second-highest TB burden in the world – about 1 million people in the country fall ill with the disease every year. Drug-resistant TB, a deadly strain of the disease that is difficult to diagnose and does not respond to first-line t...
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Anthony Estomata plays an important role in the fight against TB in the Philippines. As a Specimen Transport Rider (STRider), Anthony uses his motorcycle to transport sputum specimens from clinics to laboratories equipped with GeneXpert diagnostic ma...
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Every year, tens of thousands of young children in Nigeria die from malaria – the country is home to a staggering 39 % of all global malaria deaths among children under 5 years old. To combat this tragic loss of life, the Global Fund works with the g...
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Lucy Muzia began her career as a science teacher until a professor introduced her to entomological surveillance in 2008 – then an undeveloped field in Zambia. Undeterred by the lack of infrastructure and pay, Lucy volunteered to help establish the co...
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Communities across West Africa continue to face old and new infectious disease threats, including waterborne diseases like cholera and typhoid, viral hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola, Lassa fever and yellow fever, and new emerging threats like mpox. The...
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Thiraphot Singtohin leads the HIV unit at the Office of Disease Prevention and Control in Khon Kaen, Thailand. His team supports hospitals in four Thai provinces to conduct HIV and TB testing – critical work that involves handling transmissible patho...
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As a community health mobilizer, Rowida played a vital role in a recent campaign to distribute millions of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect communities from malaria in Sudan. Rowida spoke to families in the town of Damazine, Blue Nile Sta...
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Twenty years ago, Ethiopia’s health system was under-resourced and under pressure, facing critical workforce and infrastructure gaps. The country grappled with a heavy burden of infectious diseases – including HIV, TB and malaria – and elevated mater...
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Fanose Hirreno has been a health extension worker in the Koka region of Ethiopia for 18 years. She spends three days a week providing door-to-door care and two days supporting patients at her local community health post. Launched in 2003, Ethiopia’s ...
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After nearly three decades in public health logistics, Usman Sani knows that every delivery he manages could be the difference between life and death. Usman and his colleagues were recently stationed at a warehouse in Ungwan Muazu in Kaduna State, Ni...
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Eleven years ago, when Medihenit Angasu went into labor at home and eventually needed an emergency cesarean section, Aberu Birbirsa never left her side. “She went (to the hospital) with us that night, and when I entered the theater room, she said sh...
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In the heart of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau’s capital city, Cunna Mendes holds a medical cooler filled with biological samples. These were collected from patients showing signs of fever and respiratory distress on the remote island of Bolama, located sever...
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At a community hall in the Chilenje neighborhood of Lusaka, Zambia, the sound of singing rises above the noise of the bustling city. A group of young women sit in a circle. They call themselves the “Pink Girls” — a sisterhood of strength, resilience ...
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, while most people were under lockdown, Dr. Revathy Arushothy was heading into the laboratory – working around the clock to help keep her country safe. “Our laboratories were working 24/7,” says the microbiologi...
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Fighting deadly infectious diseases is in all our interests